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If You Strugle With An Eating Disorder Learn How To Recover Or Ask For Help At Beat Here ! An article from The Telegraph @ telegraph.co.uk By Georgina Wilkin, Former model Georgina Wilkin, 23, a former Prada model who has spent the past eight years battling anorexia, talks candidly about how eating disorders have become ‘normal’, why casting directors should be made to promote healthy eating among young models and her advice for achieving ‘body confidence’. ” I started modelling when I […]

If You’re Struggling With An Eating Disorder, Call The National Eating Disorders Helpline At 1-800-931-2237. Here we go again. Another model has revealed to the mainstream media that some models, in an effort to stay thin, eat cotton balls. The latest revelation comes from Bria Murphy, Eddie Murphy’s 23-year-old daughter who models for beauty brand Dark & Lovely and has posed for magazines like Maxim. Murphy told “Good Morning America” that she’s witnessed her fellow models go to dangerous lengths to stay thin, from drug […]

The purpose of this article is to no longer exist in a year , two, most five , because then women over a 46 size (italian) will not need a special space dedicated to them, but will share the services of fashion to fifty percent with size zero models . It will be so, it is quite easy to make a prediction , if we consider that the plus size clothing market in the U.S. alone hides a treasure from […]

ATTENTION !!! PHOTOSHOPPED IMAGES !!! By Daily Mail : Star Models, a modeling agency based in Brazil, has released a graphic new anti-anorexia ad campaign, using Photoshop to turn models into life-size fashion illustrations. The ads, which run with the tag line ‘Say no to anorexia,’ show a fashion illustration with typically exaggerated proportions next to a model wearing the same outfit – and the same measurements. While the models have been airbrushed […]

In May 2012 Kirstie Clements was unceremoniously sacked after thirteen years in the editors chair at Vogue Australia. ETonline.com caught up with Clements to hear some of the terrible practices that she observed in her time as Vogue editor. Fashionmodels are often obsessive about their weight, as the skinnier models are often those who are offered jobs. However, being thin has become so desirable for models that they will often starve themselves and partake in the dangerous practice of eating tissues to feel full. In […]

The CoF Against ProAnorexia Blogs and Websites , from Vogue Italia here is an other article that try to show and promote HEALTH. Models eat! Actually they are in love with food! because there can’t be beauty without health . There is nothing without health! “You say “model” and you think to a diet. Raw carrots, no oil, no fats, don’t even mention the sugar. Shortly, an endless sadness. Those who walk the catwalk don’t move a step in the […]

CRYSTAL RENN , who made her name as a plus-size model, has urged designers to change sample size clothes from a US zero or two (UK three or six), to a US eight (a UK 12). “By having a size eight sample, you are giving freedom to a designer,” she said. “Most of the models are going to be size sixes and eights, and you could have tens. If a really amazing model walked in who was a size zero, […]

London Plus Size Fashion Week is done: 2 days dedicated to the curvy world during the Lodon Fashion Week It took place in London the Plus Size Fashion Week that has seen the curves protagonist for two days of discussions and meetings culminating in a final fashion show in which various brands including Simply Be, Curvissa, Anna Scholz, Lucabella and many other. Models with different sizes,starting from italian size 44, marched on the catwalk. There are those who still call […]

The fashion industry has been accused of promoting “manorexia” after an array of shockingly thin male models were sent down the catwalk at Paris Fashion Week. Designer YSL was criticised on the blogosphere for “woefully irresponsible model casting” as a photo of an emaciated model prompted a barrage of responses on social media. Many criticised the designer’s use of the super-skinny model, saying it could encourage male anorexia and irresponsibly promoted an unhealthy body image, but some disturbing ‘pro-ana’ responders […]

Become ambassadors for this important message. A lot depends on you and your willingness to help your peers Vogue Italia’s Editor-in-Chief Franca Sozzani, during her Harvard speech, underlined how we all have a responsibility to fight eating disorders. All of us, and especially young people need to become a point of reference for those that don’t have the strength to face these terrible eating disorders. An appeal that Vogue has decided to turn into reality starting precisely from our readers. After the petition against pro-ana and pro-mia websites, […]

I saw Valeria first time by the pool in Monaco,Monte Carlo two years ago.I still remember the shock of that moment… I was mesmerized by the person in front of me or better said “the dead walking ” in front of me… After the shock passed I had the strongest feeling to run to her and hug her,to listen to her story and find a way to help her. Something stopped me…. the idea that maybe she’ll get it wrong,that maybe […]

The Supermodel Gemma Ward I found the blog of this amazingly beautiful girl who see herself as…. fat.She is a skinny beautiful girl that is a victim of the media.Of the world we live in.Here is something she is writing about herself: “I am worthless. I keep on gaining weight. Hating myself. My thighs are touching. I get panic attacks from wearing pants. They are too tight, I am too fat. They used to be too big, I can’t […]